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Hong Kong deports Chinese migrant for the first time since deadline to leave

Published Tuesday, April 09, 2002

U.S. warships to refuel in Yemeni port

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- The United States and Yemen have reached a deal to allow U.S. warships to resume refueling in the Yemeni port where the USS Cole was attacked nearly 19 months ago, officials said Monday.

Under the agreement, U.S. Marines will participate in security at the Aden port where 17 American sailors were killed and 37 wounded when a small boat, laden with explosives, was detonated beside the Cole in October 2000.

It was not clear when refueling would resume at Aden.

Report predicts increase of anti-Semitism

JERUSALEM -- Anti-Semitic acts rose sharply worldwide after the Sept. 11 attacks and jumped again after Israel began its offensive in the West Bank last month, according to a report published Monday.

There were 228 violent acts committed against Jews or Jewish property in the world in 2001, 50 of them major attacks involving weapons, a Tel Aviv university team said in its annual report on worldwide anti-Semitism.

The report said there was a significant increase in attacks in Europe after the Sept. 11 terror assaults in the United States and noted a recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks in western Europe on Jewish schools, synagogues and cemeteries. It didn't give numbers for the anti-Semitic incidents after Sept. 11.

Hong Kong deports Chinese migrant

HONG KONG -- A Chinese migrant was sent back to the mainland Monday, the first forced deportation since thousands of mainlanders were ordered to leave Hong Kong by the end of March after a court denied them residency rights.

Ng Ka-tun, 33, was muscled into a van and taken to the mainland after he failed to persuade immigration officials to let him stay several more weeks, said his sister, who did not want her name used.

The deportation came after Hong Kong security secretary Regina Ip warned that some 2,000 migrants would be deported in the coming weeks.